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After spending several years touring the country as a stand up comedian, Ed Brayton tired of explaining his jokes to small groups of dazed illiterates and turned to writing as the most common outlet for the voices in his head. He has appeared on the Rachel Maddow Show and the Thom Hartmann Show, and is almost certain that he is the only person ever to make fun of Chuck Norris on C-SPAN.

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Scarborough Reminisces About Locking Up Gays

Bigoted theocrat Rick Scarborough delivered a sermon at a church in New Jersey that was full of all the usual stupidity, including conflating being gay with being a pedophile. He also fondly reminisced about the days when they could put gay people in prison, which he says was based on the Bible (he’s wrong; it says to kill them, not imprison them).

So I’m sure if one of his daughter had sex before marriage he would get the other male members of the house together, take her to the outskirts of town and stone her, right? Because that’s what the Bible says. And if he had a son who is lame he wouldn’t allow him to defile gawd’s house of worship by going inside?
And that couch your wife sat on during her dirty time of the month, going to have to stay off it for a week. Same thing with the bed.
If you’re going to go all OT and shit, you’re going to have to go all in.